/lit/ - Literature

>suddenly goes on a multi-page rant about what paintings of whales he likes and what ones he thinks are shit

was it autism?

>How different the loud little King-Post. “Sing out and say something, my hearties. Roar and pull, my thunderbolts! Beach me, beach me on their black backs, boys; only do that for me, and I’ll sign over to you my Martha’s Vineyard plantation, boys; including wife and children, boys. Lay me on—lay me on! O Lord, Lord! but I shall go stark, staring mad! See! see that white water!” And so shouting, he pulled his hat from his head, and stamped up and down on it; then picking it up, flirted it far off upon the sea; and finally fell to rearing and plunging in the boat’s stern like a crazed colt from the prairie.

this is very concerning

>>23061057
Only the greatest novel of all time

Herman melvill must have a PHD in yappology

why the fuck does he go on and on about useless bullshit randomly?

Who has the greatest prose in the English language?

>*compares the ocean to cheese*
I'm fucking done with this hack. He should've known he was crossing the line with that one.

why did he filter people so hard when he was alive? was he unironically ahead of his time?

Say Happy Birthday to the author of the greatest novel ever written.